Churn



(No Model.)

O. L. BRUNER 86 W. LEWIS.

GHURN.

No. 256,967. Patented Apr.25, 1882.

HIIIII llllllflm ll UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORANGE L. BRUNER AND \VHITSEL LEWIS, OF MALTA BEND, MISSOURI.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,967, dated April 25, 1882.

Application filed January 25, 1882. (No model.)

to make and use it, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in churns; and it consists in securing a verticallyslotted guide upon the cross-beam in the frame and immediately over the top of the churn, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of our invention is to construct a guide which is specially adapted to be attached to the frame-work of the machine without making any change whatever'in the frame itself, so as to receivethe guide.

Figure l is a front elevation of our invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, partly in section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail View.

A represents a suitable base, to which the frame-work B is secured and suitably braced by means of the curved rods 0. This frame work consists of the two vertical standards D, which are united together at their tops by the cross-piece E and near their center by a second cross-piece, F. This cross-piece.and the vertical standards are braced and strengthened by means of the curved metallic brace G. Between the two cross-pieces which unite the two standards together is placed the short upright H, which serves as one of the supports for the driving-shaft I, which has the pinion J secured to its outer end for the purpose of meshing with the large driving-wheel L, in the usual manner. To the inner end of this drivingshaft is secured the fly-wheel N, which is provided with a suitable wrist-pin for the attachment of the connecting-rod O. The upper end of this connecting-rod is pivoted to the upper end of the churn-dasher, and the pin which serves to pivot these two together also serves as a guide to cause the churn-dasher to move vertically. Placed upon the cross-piece which unites the two standards together near their center is the guide P, which consists of two vertically-slotted upright portions, which are united together at their lower ends, so as to form but a single piece. Projecting downward from the bottom of this guide are the two flanges or projections It, which catch over the front edge of the cross-piece for the purpose of bracing the guide in position and preventing it from turning around, and up between which the upper part of the dasher-rod passes. The pin which unites the connecting and dasher. rods together is long enough to project through on both sides of the guide and play back and forth in the two slots made through it. As the two projections on the lower part of the guide serve to catch over the front of the crosspiece, they indicate exactly where the guide should be placed.

It will be seen from the construction above described that instead of having to make special guides for theframe-work, as in many cases, the frame-work is here made without any referenceto the guide, and then the guide afterward placed in position.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- 7 In a reciprocating churn, the combination of the two uprights D, connected together by the cross-piece F, with the slotted guide P, which is secured upon the top of the cross-piece F, and which is provided with the projections R to'catch over the edge of the cross-piece, the slots in the guide being formed outside of the edge of the cross'piece, so as to be in a direct line with the dasher-rod, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ORANGE LEMON BRUNEI WHITSEL LEWIS.

Witnesses:

J No. '1. MALLOWY, EDWIN T. BAsKIN. 

